Chapter Summaries

Hua Jiu'er failed to grasp the Sword Dao in the Sword Intent Passage, but the crimson flower sea helped her comprehend the sword technique “Burial Flower Falls from Sky.” Following a trace of deathly energy to a gorge in search of Hua Qiang, she encountered a mysterious youth bearing a peacock pendant and began fighting him.

• Hua Jiu'er left Li Qingshui meditating in the Sword Intent Passage and went east to search for Hua Qiang.
• In the crimson flower sea, Hua Jiu'er understood the sword intent woven through life and death and comprehended “Burial Flower Falls from Sky.”
• Hua Jiu'er sensed deathly energy and followed it to a gorge containing a Sword Comprehension Stele, but found no sign of Hua Qiang.
• A youth in peacock-blue robes descended from the cliff and asked Hua Jiu'er why she was there; she demanded to know who he was.
• The youth suddenly reached for Hua Jiu'er, and she counterattacked with flower swords, beginning a fierce clash in the gorge.

Shiva Valos and her guards were cornered by Hun Wupo and his men, and she nearly used a forbidden secret art after both guards fell. Hua Qiang emerged from the secret realm, stopped Shiva Valos from destroying herself, and confronted Hun Wupo.

• Shiva Valos, Fa Zixiong, and Zhang Min fought Hun Wupo's men while fleeing toward a void passage into the Ancient Secret Realm.
• Zhang Min took a poisoned dagger meant for Shiva Valos, and Fa Zixiong died fighting so she could escape.
• Shiva Valos began using a forbidden secret art, prompting Hun Wupo and his men to flee.
• Hua Qiang left the secret realm early and encountered the injured Shiva Valos as she pursued Hun Wupo's retreating group.
• Hua Qiang calmed Shiva Valos's forbidden power, gave her a healing pill, and challenged Hun Wupo after he threatened him.

Hua Qiang protected the wounded Shiva Valos and destroyed Hun Wupo’s men with a single sword strike. He then shattered Hun Wupo’s Myriad Ghosts Banner and left the Ghost Hall heir badly wounded as he approached.

• Hun Wupo ordered his men to attack Hua Qiang without asking about his background.
• Hua Qiang placed Shiva Valos behind a stone and reassured her before summoning the Wudao Sword.
• Hua Qiang killed the scar-faced leader and the other black-clad men with one sweep of sword qi.
• Hun Wupo unleashed the Myriad Ghosts Banner, but Hua Qiang’s golden sword qi destroyed its ghosts and shattered the banner.
• The banner’s backlash hurled Hun Wupo into a boulder, and he watched in terror as Hua Qiang approached.

Hua Qiang destroyed Hun Wupo’s weapons and defeated Hun Yingkong’s Immortal Emperor clone after Hun Wupo summoned his father for help. Hun Wupo ended the chapter begging Hua Qiang to spare his life.

• Hua Qiang destroyed Hun Wupo’s black banner and declared that he would kill him for sending subordinates after him and gravely injuring his woman.
• Hun Wupo unleashed a series of sinister magic treasures, but Hua Qiang’s Dao Sword shattered them all.
• Hun Wupo crushed a jade pendant and summoned his father, Hun Yingkong, in an Immortal Emperor clone.
• Hun Yingkong attacked Hua Qiang with the Netherworld Blood Sea and Netherworld Banner, but Hua Qiang destroyed the clone and banner with his Dao Sword.
• Hua Qiang confronted the terrified Hun Wupo, who begged for his life and offered to accept any conditions.

After killing Hun Wupo, Hua Qiang faced the Immortal Emperor who came to avenge his son and trapped him inside a sealed valley. Hua Qiang’s desperate attacks wounded the giant hand and finally severed half of it, but the powerful enemy remained above him.

• Hua Qiang killed Hun Wupo, took his Storage Ring, and heard Hun Wupo’s father vow revenge.
• Hun Wupo’s father reached through a tear in the sky with a giant hand and sealed the area, preventing Hua Qiang from escaping.
• Hua Qiang sent Shiva Valos into his Small World and struck the giant hand with the Wudao Sword, breaking its scales but failing to stop it.
• Hua Qiang combined his power with the Law of Destruction and charged through the giant hand’s black mist.
• Hua Qiang broke through the hand’s defenses with the Dao Sword and severed half of it, sending the severed piece crashing into the ground.

Hua Qiang escaped Jiu You’s prison, but Ghost Emperor Hun Yingkong relentlessly pursued him across folded spaces, underground, and beneath the sea. After Hua Qiang wounded Hun Yingkong with God Slaying Slash, the Ghost Emperor’s barrage hurled him into a spatial fissure, where he found himself in the Void Light Realm.

• Hua Qiang exploited damage to the prison’s restriction, opened a spatial fissure, and escaped into the void despite Ghost Emperor Hun Yingkong’s chains.
• Hua Qiang fled through layered spatial pockets, underground, and through the sea as Hun Yingkong destroyed his routes and continued attacking.
• Hua Qiang struck Hun Yingkong with God Slaying Slash, cleaving the Ghost Emperor’s Wolf Tooth Club and severing one of his arms.
• Hun Yingkong unleashed repeated attacks that battered Hua Qiang and sent him into a gigantic fissure.
• Hua Qiang recovered and realized he had entered the Void Light Realm.

Hua Qiang entered the Void Light Realm, survived the Void Beasts’ attacks, and hunted them while concealing himself. He broke through to the Immortal Emperor Realm, slaughtered dozens more beasts, and faced a bolt of blue lightning.

• Grayish-purple mist threatened Hua Qiang, who used his Dao Sword to drive it back and sensed a pack of Void Beasts in the mist.
• The Void Beasts attacked Hua Qiang, wounding him until he healed himself with Life Divine Water.
• Hua Qiang used the Void Scripture and Myriad Life Arts to disguise himself, then silently killed Void Beasts and gained Slaughter Points and Blood Qi.
• The white tiger Void Beast noticed the missing carcasses and alerted the pack, but Hua Qiang remained hidden and prepared a Void Arrow.
• Hua Qiang broke through to the Immortal Emperor Realm as immortal power erupted from his body.
• Hua Qiang used Void Rifts and a Void Cage to kill dozens of Void Beasts, then a bolt of blue lightning struck toward him.

Hua Qiang and his three clones used the Void Beasts as collateral while enduring nine waves of Lightning Tribulation. They officially advanced to the Immortal Emperor Realm as true Immortal Sovereigns, and Hua Qiang looked forward to facing the Ghost Emperor again.

• Hua Qiang provoked nearby Void Beasts and used the first Lightning Tribulation to kill them and gain Slaughter Points.
• Hua Qiang summoned Clones No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, and all four drew the tribulation lightning toward groups of Void Beasts while fighting through successive waves.
• Hua Qiang and his clones combined their treasures and techniques to withstand the later tribulations, annihilating the Void Beast horde and raising Hua Qiang's Slaughter Points above ten million.
• Hua Qiang and his clones endured the ninth Lightning Tribulation with their fused power, then received the Heavenly Path's reward and officially advanced to the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Hua Qiang celebrated his new strength and thought of Hun Yingkong and the Ghost Emperor, confident he could now fight an Immortal Emperor.

Hua Qiang reached Immortal Emperor Second Level and encountered a Time Beast that trapped him in slowed time. He used Prediction and the Dao Sword to kill it, then stood stunned by a voice in his mind.

• Hua Qiang exchanged more than two hundred million Slaughter Points for Blood Qi Points and advanced to Immortal Emperor Second Level.
• Hua Qiang searched the basin for an exit with his clones, then prepared to ask Xiao Ling to send him out.
• Hua Qiang sensed a Time Beast on an obsidian boulder, and it used time manipulation to slow his movements and attack him.
• Hua Qiang summoned the Dao Sword, which weakened the Time Beast's temporal suppression, and used Prediction to sever one of its legs.
• The Time Beast accelerated toward Hua Qiang again, but he placed the Dao Sword in its path and split it in two.
• Hua Qiang watched the Time Beast die and froze in surprise at a voice in his mind.

Hua Qiang gained Time Acceleration and Time Deceleration from a Time Beast, then used his perfected Time Deceleration to kill two more. Meanwhile, Zi Furong’s Female Hunting Squad searched for Time Beasts to keep their clan alive and discovered a Level Four Time Python.

• Hua Qiang absorbed a Time Beast’s Blood Qi and gained Time Acceleration, Time Deceleration, and 200,000 Slaughter Points.
• Hua Qiang trapped two Time Beasts in a Hell Prison, slowed them with Time Deceleration, and killed them with his Dao Sword.
• Zi Furong rallied her injured hunting squad, whose members had only three days left, and ordered them to split up and search for Time Beasts.
• Zi Furong led Wei Xiaomei and two other women northeast, where Wei Xiaomei spotted an enormous Level Four Time Python.
• Zi Furong ordered the squad to send a signal flare and gather the others to fight the Time Python.

Zi Furong’s team trapped a Level Four Time Python in a rope net and tried to kill it from a distance. The python resisted with its time skills and venom, and Zi Furong prepared another drug-coated Meteorite Arrow as the battle continued.

• A signal flare brought Zi Furong’s team together, and she identified a massive Time Python as their target.
• Xiao Yuting, Wang Sanmei, Ma Xiaojuan, and Niu Li dropped a rope net over the sleeping python and suspended it from a tree.
• Zi Furong’s team fired arrows, but the python slowed and swallowed most of them with its time abilities, while its scales resisted the rest.
• The python attacked the net’s support tree and sprayed venom as Xiao Yuting, Ma Xiaojuan, Wang Sanmei, and Niu Li launched close-range attacks.
• Zi Furong fired a Meteorite Arrow that only scraped off several scales, then drew another arrow coated with a paralytic drug.

The Time Python devastated Zi Furong’s team with its time abilities and venom until Hua Qiang emerged after comprehending Time Stop. He easily pinned the python by its head and tail, then challenged it to twist its body as it threatened to perish with him.

• The Time Python broke free of the rope net and overwhelmed Zi Furong’s team with poisonous mist, time-based attacks, and a venom dragon.
• Xiao Yuting, Wang Sanmei, Niu Li, and the other fighters suffered severe injuries as the team’s weapons and spiritual power dwindled.
• Hua Qiang watched the battle and comprehended the beginner-level time skill Time Stop.
• The Time Python cornered all twenty members of Zi Furong’s team, but Hua Qiang arrived and avoided its Time Cage.
• Hua Qiang stomped the Time Python’s head into the ground and clamped its tail, leaving it unable to move.
• The enraged Time Python threatened to perish with Hua Qiang as he taunted it to twist its body.

Hua Qiang killed the Time Python that had nearly defeated Zi Furong and her hunting team, then healed them with pills that helped many advance in cultivation. After accepting Zi Furong’s Verdant Azure Fruit, he asked why the women hunted Time Beasts, and she began explaining that her people were a Cursed Tribe.

• Hua Qiang severed the Peak Level 4 Time Python’s head with his broken Dao Sword and left its body for the injured women.
• Xiao Yuting introduced the hunting team to Hua Qiang, including its captain, Zi Furong.
• Hua Qiang gave the women Super Healing Pills, which healed their injuries and raised Zi Furong from the True Immortal Realm Peak to the Immortal King Realm.
• Zi Furong gave Hua Qiang a Verdant Azure Fruit in gratitude, and he found that eating it slightly improved his comprehension of the Water Law.
• Hua Qiang asked Zi Furong why the women hunted Time Beasts and where the tribe’s men were, and Zi Furong began explaining that they belonged to a Cursed Tribe.

Zi Furong told Hua Qiang that her all-female tribe was trapped by an ancient curse that drained their lifespans and forced them to hunt Time Beasts. Hua Qiang revealed he could remove the curse and successfully freed Zi Furong from it, leaving the other Girls hopeful that they could be saved too.

• Zi Furong explained that the tribe had only women, could not leave its land, and survived by hunting Time Beasts to gain more time.
• Zi Furong said only a powerful Curse Master could break the curse, and Hua Qiang realized he might be able to help.
• Hua Qiang sensed the curse inside Zi Furong and told her he knew how to remove it.
• Hua Qiang used the Blood Demon Scripture to draw the curse power out of Zi Furong and devour it.
• Zi Furong confirmed that the curse was gone, and the nineteen Girls wept with relief and hope.

After Hua Qiang purged the curse power from Zi Furong, Xiao Yuting, and the other girls, they pledged to follow him and asked him to save their tribe. Zi Furong led Hua Qiang to the hidden settlement, where he saw the tribe’s suffering and heard its leader ask how the hunt had gone.

• Hua Qiang cleansed the girls of curse power, and they thanked him with a feast.
• Zi Furong, Xiao Yuting, and the other girls swore loyalty to Hua Qiang and asked him to save their tribe.
• Hua Qiang agreed to help, and Zi Furong led him and the girls through a misty valley to the tribe’s concealed entrance.
• Hua Qiang saw the tribe’s malnourished elders and barefoot children living in a secluded valley.
• A gentle voice from the council hall asked Zi Furong how the hunt had gone.

Zi Furong introduced Hua Qiang to Purple Rose and the elders as the person who could break the tribe’s curse. After Hua Qiang removed the cursed energy from more than a thousand tribe members, the tribe celebrated and asked him to become its chieftain.

• Zi Furong brought Hua Qiang before Purple Rose and the elders and said he could resolve the tribe’s curse.
• Zi Furong assured the elders that Hua Qiang had already removed the curse from the hunters, and Purple Rose solemnly thanked him.
• Over the next three days, Hua Qiang absorbed the cursed energy from the tribe’s thousand-plus members.
• The tribe celebrated its restored vitality with a feast, and Zi Furong attended closely to Hua Qiang.
• Purple Rose, Kou Meiren, and the other leaders offered to serve Hua Qiang and asked him to become the tribe’s chieftain.

Hua Qiang led his family and female soldiers into the Space-time Rift to capture Time Beasts, giving Hua Xiaoyao and Hua Sijun a chance to gain experience. After the children and their battle pets captured several beasts safely, Hua Qiang prepared to leave and win back some face.

• Hua Qiang arranged for his followers and led nearly a hundred girls toward the Time Beasts, with Hua Xiaoyao and Hua Sijun guarded by their battle pets.
• Zi Furong and the girls showered Hua Xiaoyao with attention, then hurried to praise Hua Sijun after Hua Qiang reassured her.
• Hua Xiaoyao summoned a demon god phantom and captured a Time Wolf Beast despite its time-based divine ability.
• Hua Sijun used the Ancient Phantom Vine and a fiery red sword to restrain a Time Deer and interrupt its Time Reversal.
• The Peacock King and the other battle pets protected the children as they captured Time Beasts, and Hua Qiang decided it was time to go out and win back some face.

Hua Sijun absorbed a Time Beast’s power and comprehended the Time Prison divine ability in the Space-time Rift. After trapping the beast and consolidating her breakthrough, she celebrated with Hua Qiang, Hua Xiaoyao, and the others, declaring she could now help protect them.

• Hua Sijun used the Phantom Demon Vine to bind a pangolin-like Time Beast and absorb its essence, triggering a breakthrough as Hua Qiang ordered everyone to stay still.
• Hua Sijun comprehended the nature of time and combined her insight with the Phantom Demon Vine to create the Time Prison, trapping the Time Beast.
• Hua Sijun absorbed the beast’s remaining power and consolidated her new realm before descending to join Hua Qiang and the others.
• The Time Beast made one last attempt to escape, but Hua Sijun reinforced the Time Prison and suppressed it.
• Hua Qiang, Hua Xiaoyao, Zi Furong, the female soldiers, and the beasts congratulated Hua Sijun, who vowed to protect everyone with her new ability.

Hua Qiang learned that refining the Void Light Realm's origin energy could let him control the sealed world and leave it, then journeyed toward its source. After fighting through Void Beasts and Time Beasts, he reached the place with the strongest origin aura, where a powerful Mutant Beast attacked him.

• Hua Qiang asked Zi Furong and Xiao Ling how to leave the Void Light Realm and learned that finding and refining its world origin could give him control over the world.
• Xiao Ling sensed the origin energy a million li to the northeast, deep underground, so Hua Qiang sent everyone into his Small World and flew toward it.
• Hua Qiang fought off a flock of flying Void Beasts and several Time Beasts, killing them with his sword techniques.
• Hua Qiang traveled for two days through further battles and reached the place where the World Divine Tree sensed the strongest world-origin aura.
• A powerful Mutant Beast locked onto Hua Qiang and launched an attack.

Hua Qiang fought through a vast swarm of Time-Space Bugs while searching for the world origin, which the bugs guarded. After destroying the first wave, he discovered the Time-Space Bug Mother beneath the ground and faced her as she released another enormous brood.

• Hua Qiang killed a Level Five Time-Space Bug, drawing a massive swarm to attack him.
• Hua Qiang used time-based techniques and the Dao Sword to battle the bugs, including several Level Six attackers.
• Hua Qiang tore through the swarm and sensed newly hatched bugs emerging from a nest beneath the ground.
• Hua Qiang rushed toward the nest and found the Time-Space Bug Mother erupting from underground.
• The Time-Space Bug Mother released tens of thousands of eggs, and the newborn swarm surged toward Hua Qiang.